Comments on: Methods To Access Hotel Wireless Without Paying For It

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:47:22 +0000

I agree, what most hotels charge is outrageous. I’d rather they just increase the price of a room by a few dollars and be done with it.

By: Mark H

Mark H — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:16:15 +0000

If the fee in any way represented their cost, then that wouldn’t be so bad. It is the arrogant grab for cash ($20 and $25 for 24 hours access, when they know people want to check email for 10 minutes in most cases). Libraries are oftena good source for a free burst of internetting.

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:22:26 +0000

When I was in Ireland, the hostels I stayed in for 10 Euro a night provided free (fast) wifi while the hotel hosting the conference I was attended charged 20 Euro a day! That’s way too much, even if you are going to charge the rates should be reasonable. This guide and the tricks in it should come in handy though and will hopefully help you avoid a charge or two.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:27:33 +0000

Nice, thanks for these. Hotels charging for wireless is the biggest scam out there, and there’s not many things that irk me more about traveling. We all know how cheap wireless is, and these hotels that charge $10/day to access theirs is just ridiculous. I wish they would just raise their rates and not tell me about it. It’s like charging you if you turn on the television and access the cable. There’s no difference.

I’ll definitely be bookmarking this for my next trip. Thanks again.

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:12:59 +0000

haha, I was going for the ‘hop over the fence/go around security’ metaphor

By: Gourmantic

Gourmantic — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:04:19 +0000

I’m trying to figure out your choice of photo at the start of the article!

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By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:47:19 +0000

Good luck Barbara, the IP/MAC hack in the video is a pretty straightforward and easier way to get around the blocks. There are a few other methods I didn’t mention that I thought got too technical, but they involve reading the wireless traffic and trying to pull out password information from there.

Some of these firewalls also only block DNS, so you can get to some sites just by typing in their IP address directly. On Mac, open the terminal, type “ping IP ADDRESS” (e.g. ping 213.86.83.116) if that works, it’s a start

By: Barbara @ Hole In The Donut Travels

Barbara @ Hole In The Donut Travels — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:58 +0000

Oh how I wish I had your level of tech ability. Still, there’s some good stuff I can try next time that’s not beyond my abilities. Thanks – will report back if I have any success.